Vessel Name: Nauticon

Type of Vessel: Ship

Dates of Voyage: 13 September 1848-24 March 1853

Keeper: Susan C. Austin Veeder

Purpose of Voyage: Whaling

Port of Origin: Nantucket, Mass.

Master: Charles A. Veeder

Owner-Agent: G. & M. Starbuck & Co.

Log/journal, kept by captain's wife, Susan C. Austin Veeder, relating to a whaling voyage to Talcahuano, Pitcairn, Sandwich Islands, Arctic, and Tahiti. Includes 16 p. of watercolors of islands seen and descriptions of a baby born in Talcahuano (died 14 months later in Tahiti), visit to Fletcher Christian's house in Pitcairn, being stuck in the ice for 13 days in the Arctic, and the sighting of a polar bear. Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Charles A. Veeder; owner-agent: G. & M. Starbuck & Co.